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A review of diffusion tensor imaging studies in schizophrenia

Authors
 Marek Kubicki  ;  Robert McCarley  ;  Martha E. Shenton  ;  Ferenc A. Jolesz  ;  Ron Kikinis  ;  Stephan Maier  ;  Hae-Jeong Park  ;  Carl-Fredrik Westin 
Citation
 JOURNAL OF PSYCHIATRIC RESEARCH, Vol.41(1-2) : 15-30, 2007 
Journal Title
JOURNAL OF PSYCHIATRIC RESEARCH
ISSN
 0022-3956 
Issue Date
2007
MeSH
Anisotropy ; Brain/anatomy & histology* ; Brain/pathology ; Diffusion Magnetic Resonance Imaging* ; Humans ; Nerve Fibers/pathology ; Nerve Net/anatomy & histology ; Nerve Net/pathology ; Schizophrenia/diagnosis* ; Schizophrenia/pathology
Abstract
Both post-mortem and neuroimaging studies have contributed significantly to what we know about the brain and schizophrenia. MRI studies of volumetric reduction in several brain regions in schizophrenia have confirmed early speculations that the brain is disordered in schizophrenia. There is also a growing body of evidence suggesting that a disturbance in connectivity between different brain regions, rather than abnormalities within the separate regions themselves, are responsible for the clinical symptoms and cognitive dysfunctions observed in this disorder. Thus an interest in white matter fiber tracts, subserving anatomical connections between distant, as well as proximal, brain regions, is emerging. This interest coincides with the recent advent of diffusion tensor imaging (DTI), which makes it possible to evaluate the organization and coherence of white matter fiber tracts. This is an important advance as conventional MRI techniques are insensitive to fiber tract direction and organization, and have not consistently demonstrated white matter abnormalities. DTI may, therefore, provide important new information about neural circuitry, and it is increasingly being used in neuroimaging studies of psychopathological disorders. Of note, in the past five years 18 DTI studies in schizophrenia have been published, most describing white matter abnormalities. Questions still remain, however, regarding what we are measuring that is abnormal in this disease, and how measures obtained using one method correspond to those obtained using other methods? Below we review the basic principles involved in MR-DTI, followed by a review of the different methods used to evaluate diffusion. Finally, we review MR-DTI findings in schizophrenia.
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DOI
10.1016/j.jpsychires.2005.05.005
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1. College of Medicine (의과대학) > Dept. of Nuclear Medicine (핵의학교실) > 1. Journal Papers
Yonsei Authors
Park, Hae Jeong(박해정) ORCID logo https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4633-0756
URI
https://ir.ymlib.yonsei.ac.kr/handle/22282913/96519
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